A national survey conducted via telephone recently uncovered startling trends in the rate of the diagnosis of diabetes.
Residents all across the US were asked via telephone if they had been diagnosed with diabetes, although not differentiating between the two types.
The regional discoveries were troubling, as well as the rates of reported cases compared to 20 years ago.
Compared to rates of diagnosed diabetes 20 years ago, the population of Americans with the disease has skyrocketed, even doubling in many areas.
The region of the US with the highest rate of occurrence? The South, with the concentration of the highest rates centered in the Appalachian states.
Currently, 3 out of every 50 people interviewed in the phone survey admitted to already having full blown diabetes, either as Type 1 or Type 2. However, a much, much larger population, at least 1 in 4, is suspected to have pre-diabetic disorders, such as Metabolic Syndrome.
Type 1 diabetes is genetic and not something caused by lifestyle factors. It is also considered to be incurable, but manageable. Type 2 diabetes is brought on by a combination of diet and other lifestyle factors and is 100% preventable and reversible.
As the trend line for obesity and other metabolic diseases goes skyward, the rate of diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes follows along, almost exactly following the same trajectory.
While the long-term survivability has increased, adding to the numbers of people who currently are diagnosed, the newly diagnosed patients are the leading reason for the high numbers, according to the research.
Answer: people are fat and lazy.
Now what we’re seeing is a personally generated metabolic dysfunction being turned into a public health problem.
We’re also seeing a fitnes problem being turned into a medical problem – and you can’t solve a fitness problem with a medical solution.
This is a fantastic business opportunity for doctors, chemists and medical researchers.
Christian – keep up the good work.
John Miller
If the medics, instead of prescribing factory produced chemical drugs, sat the clients or patients down and took time to ask about lifestyle, advising about the need to look carefully at the EATING, DRINKING, SLEEPING AND EXERCISING habits, especially the use of sugar, sugary products and most sweeteners, with correction necessary in most cases, there would be little Diabetes. I have an enormous amount of evidence, gathered over the past 50 years in my practice as a Naturopath, to prove this. I was diagnosed as having the problem in 1964 at the age of 36. My Doctor, a close relative, advised a complete change of lifestyle and I have not had a problem since. The evidence on my files has accumulated as feed back has arrived regularly from the thousands who were told they had the disease and whom I have helped
Throughout our history a healthy diet was one which was based mainly on foods of animal origin and high in fats. Where the major health problems occured in Britain, it was not among people who ate a lot of fat, but in those who did not get enough.The comparatively wealthy, who ate meat and dairy produce regularly, had average lifespans which were comparable with or better than those of today. It was the poor who could not afford such foods who suffered high levels of infant mortality, poor growth and shorter, less healthy lives.
In the 1920's, Sir John Boyd Orr conducted a number of studies which compared growth rates of children in public schools with those in state run schools. He found that those from wealthier backgrounds were significantly taller than their poorer peers. After examining their relative diets and changing the constituents, Boyd Orr proved conclusively that children of the socially deprived, who lived on a largely carbohydrate diet of bread and potatoes, benefitted from a diet supplemented with full-cream milk.
Boyd Orr's studies found confirmation in observations among the people's of India made by Sir Robert McCarrison, a colonial medical officer. He compared the southern Indians, who ate very little in the way of dairy produce and who were of stunted growth and prone to disease, with their neighbours to the north, the Sikhs, who drank a great deal of milk and were fit and healthy. Maasai, who lived almost exclusively on blood and milk, with their unhealthy vegetarian neighbours, the Kikuyu. That added to the weight of evidence.
Boyd Orr concluded that the food intake of half the British population was seriously deficient in a number of what he called 'protective constitiuents' which were necessary for good health. In the late 1930's he proposed that the British people should drink more milk, and eat more dairy produce and meat. The British government of the time recommended that milk consumption should be doubled and introduced free school milk. The British Medical Association, giving specific amounts, advised that the population should consume 80% more milk, 55% more eggs, 40% more butter and 30% more meat. Later, with the advent of television advertising, the government sponsored its own 'go to work on an egg' campaign.
Except for the period of food rationing during the 1940s and early 1950s, Boyd Orr's recommended diet was the standard British fare. We ate breakfast of eggs and fatty bacon fried in lard: dripping, the fat from the sunday roast, was saved to have on bread and toast: we drank full cream milk and ate butter. Only the poor ate margarine: and only the poor had high levels of disease. The recommendations to eat a relatively high-fat, high-animal protein diet led to a spectacular decrease in diseases: rickets, called the 'English Disease' because it was so widespread together with other defeciency diseases, largely disappeared from our lives: child deaths from diptheria, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough also fell dramatically well before the introduction of anti-biotics and widespread immunisation. Although other factors helped, most important was the higher resistance of children to disease that followed from better nutrition. That dietary advice, given to the people of Britain in 1938 remained the basis of our diet for nearly 50years, during which time our mean life expectancy increased from 60 years in 1930 to 70years by 1960 and by 1990 it had reached 75years. ( From the book 'Natural health and weight loss' by a Barry Groves.)
Since the 1980s there has been a reversal of all that went before in the previous 50 years. No fat, low fat, meat consumption has been drastically cut from our diet, as has eggs, full cream milk, all on the advice of the modern day 'health gurus' 'nutirionists' and tv health pundits who are indoctrinating people into eating the most toxic and poisonous foods ever contrived. As one man said, the masses prefer to eat preserved, polished, purified, canned foods, that one way or another are dessicated by chemicals, by heating, by freezing and thawing, by oxidization and decomposition, by milling and polishing, man applies the principles of his"civilization," which is the elimination of the old primitive civilizations natural way of eating and the substitution of it with the artificial. By so doing he turns a once natural and wholesome food into a "dead" mass of nutritional sewage. the consequence of which is the sickest society that the world has ever seen and getting sicker.
Grapes are full of sugar, fructose being the name of sugars that fruit produces, because fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion from the pancreas as does glucose-containing carbohydrate foods like bread and pasta, people who know this believe that fruit must be healthier. But there is a snag, our bodies produce a hormone called 'leptin' which controls weight gain: the more leptin produced the less weight is put on.The production of leptin is regulated by insulin responses to meals. Thus fructose, by reducing insulin, also reduces circulating leptin concentrations.
Dr. Sharon Elliot and colleagues at the universities of California and Pennsylvania, say that the combined effects of insulin and lowered leptin in individuals who eat diets that are high in dietary fructose(fruits) could increase the likelihood of weight gain and associated conditions. In addition, they point out that fructose, compared with glucose, is preferentially metabolized to fat in the liver. In animal studies fructose has been shown to induce insulin resistance, impair glucose tolerance and raise blood levels of insulin and triglycerides, as well as raising blood pressure, although the figures are not so clear in humans. Nevertheless, there are human data that suggests that eating more fructose may be detrimental in terms of increased fat storage and body weight and the illnesses associated with the metabolic syndrome.
Sugars from whatever source generates insulin in the body, insulin being a hormone that can, in significant quantities cause huge disruption in the body leading to all kinds of problems. i.e, Diabetes is now a plague in the 'civilised 'world, and why, because most people live on mainly a carbohydrate diet, the Doctor will tell tham to eat more fruit and vegetables, but they are carbohydrates too, in fact they could be worse for diabetics. The best solution is to take away the need for the cells to put up resistance in the first place by giving insulin less of a job to do. As ALL dietary carbohydrates, whether it is bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, sugar or fruit, and whatever its glyceamic index, ultimately reaches the blood as glucose, the best way to reduce the need for increased insulin is to reduce dietary carbohydrate. And we also need to reduce our intakes of the cheap, engineered dietary oils and margarines.These two elements of our modern diet are a recipe for disaster.
The evidence of how bad our diet is; we have the sickest society ever known, plagued by a plethora of diseases, caused mainly by a greedy corporate mafia who sell the most poisonous foods to the masses.
It is great to hear from someone who knows there stuff on nutrition and knows what the criminal multi nationals are doing to us via our food. Please write more It was very interesting to read Thankyou Michael cook and blue heron for putting it out there.
I recommend you buy the finest book on nutrition and health that I have ever read. It is called 'TRICK and TREAT' by a Barry Groves. A man who has spent over 50 years of his life researching mans diet in all parts of the world. Documented not with opinion, but living proof of what works and does not work. Showing peoples who never get cancers or diabetes or a host of diseases that plague 'civilised' man. A finer book I could not recommend.
Thank you, Blue Heron and Michael Cook, for the info on nutrition. I am definitely going to read the book you recommend, Michael. I was diagnosed with Diabetes II about 10 years ago. I find that if I eliminate as many carbs as I can my blood sugar goes down. I use olive oil, butter and some coconut oil in cooking. And I eat more protein in meat; red meat, fish and chicken. Even though I do not believe in the cholesterol theory my doctor use to push me to go on statin drugs. I told her that there is no way I will ever use those. So she has laid off wanting me to take Niacin which makes me itch like crazy and made my heart pump hard. I was on Lipitor for 6 months twice and had memory loss and muscle weakness in my legs. That’s when I did research on those drugs and learnt more about cholesterol. My doctor is still concerned about my cholesterol. Namely LDL and triglicerides. So any thought on this? I really appreciate the education I receive when I read what others say.
In my opinion, Type2 diabetes rates are soaring, because of wrong diagnosis and wrong treatment.In modern lifestyle and wrong food habits, we have no control on our taste.Everybody likes spicy and fatty foods and after that sweet is a must in INDIA.Overeating is a common problem.
Now one fine evening you had your regular fatty and spicy food and something went wrong in the night like:More thirst, more urination, disturbed sleep, headache etc.Next day you go to your doctor.Dr.does the regular checkup:BP, Sugar etc.Definitely the sugar level will shootup and may be the BP a little bit on higher side.Doctor prescribed the medicine for sugar control and BP control.You become the victim of diabetes.Doctor says:take the medicine and eat whatever you like, no problem, you will be all right.What is this? You are increasing the nos. of diabetics.
The correct method is:you should go on 1day fasting with lemon water only then check the sugar.It will come normal no diabetes.Doctor should explain the person not patient:Simple diet, lot of water, morning walk and no medicine—-No diabetes.
Sharon
Search Kindle and look for a book called the Great Cholesterol Con. It was written by a doctor whose name escapes me but goes into why LDL cholesterol goes up and down like blood pressure and is natures way of preventing a heamorage when stressed. Doctors try and bring it down as they are concerened about heart attacks but this actually increases the risk of stroke. Very informative and eye opening book. It also gives a good strategy for maintaining acceptable levels of Cholesterol and outlines some scary details about Statins and the clinical trials that were conducted to prove these drugs ‘work’.
Hi Sharon. Niacin in its slow release form minimizes the itching to a huge extent and it can be taken in larger doses. I found it virtually imossible to take it in its original form ( before the slow release )due to extreme itching experienced.
Sharon, my dr wanted me on those too. I took them, a month, and muscle problems caused me to quit. I read a book by Robert Kowalski, and used his suggestions and recipes, primarily using plant sterol capsules, and oat bran, added to muffins, soups, smoothies, and lowered my cholesterol. My dr. poo pooed the book, and the method, and he thought I used his pills to lower my cholesterol, I guess. The book is out of print, but still available in hardback and paperback. I loved the recipes; but I eat weird foods. I liked the crunchy muffins, which eaten daily did lower my cholesterol. I also eat or drink 1/4 cup of ground yellow flax a day, too. I like the buttery nutty taste of them on cereals (no sugar, no sweetner) and on top of low fat, low sugar ice cream. Flax begins to deteriorate as soon as they are ground. I grind mine regularly. I like the smell while grinding them on my blender. You can use a coffee grinder too, but flax has lots of that great oil like cold water fish, that is so good for us, but not good for coffee grinders. I dont use mine for coffee. A bag of flax seed whole keeps for a long long time, and is not expensive, especially in bins in the super market. I love it on ice cream. So nutty and buttery! I seldom eat ice cream, but that is my prize on days I have respected my system while eating! I do not know what to do to lower triglicerides. I need to lower that! Good luck, Sharon and thanks, Blue Heron Health News, and you lovely and handsome researchers and writers! (I like the name Blue Heron.)I’m going to look for that book too, Michael!
Warm fuzzies and respect coming your way! grumbling georgia
People may be lazy. I have knodes on the tendons under my arches. It hurts when walking. I also have bone and joint pains, and can only walk about 2 houses away. I do that often. I do some of my yard work. Takes lots of walking. I hurt all the time, so it is not fun to try and stand long enough to load half a dishwasher. Takes me hours to do a chore; have to get off my bones or cause more pain & damage.
I think, junk food, man made edibles and additives, gmo products, unnatural cooking oils, bad medications, contaminated water, foods, soil, & air, genes, and ignorance andlifestyle have caused this epidemic all over the world of type II diabetes, and other illnesses. (Definition of ignorance; not knowleged, not knowing at the time), a perfectly respectibly state, unless a person chooses to remain in that state;) grouchy georgia, again
Sharon,If you eliminate carbs from your diet,you will become lazy because you will not get energy.If you eat more protien and fat in your diet,your cells will have a hard coating on them.The glucose will not pass into the cells and blood will remain higher in glucose and cholesterol(LDL)and triglycerides will be higher in blood.To lower LDL and triglycerides,never use statin drugs.Use Fenugreek seeds in your diet.Drink boiled water with fenugreek seeds(2 litres per day.Use garlic in your diet.No soy protien at all.Use olive oil and Omega-3 as dietary suppliment(1000mg per day.Do some yoga & pranayam daily.All the best.
Why diabetes is on the rise? that's an easy one, industrial processed diet, stressful lives that increase cortisol levels, too little exercise, too little sleep, many hours of TV and computer, forgetting ancient social values like "love thy neighbour" and being busy all day in making money, flouride water, cellphones, chemical toxics everywhere, lack of sun exposure and to top it all – "medical" drugs side effects. Any more wonder?
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